COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
SATuRDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2021
Husband resents wife’s life outside of home
with my friends, he says, “It’s
always been me and you, no one
else.” We fight every time I go
out. I’m tired of all of it. Do you
have advice for me? — Sick Of
Explaining
Dear Sick: Yes. Recognize
that you married an antisocial,
deeply insecure and verbally abu-
sive man. He views any relation-
ship you have with someone other
than him as a threat, so he is pun-
ishing you for it. Also, recognize
that his anger and his need to con-
trol you will only escalate. You
may be “sick of explaining,” but
your husband is sick, period. I’m
advising you to make a discreet
call to the National Domestic
Dear Abby: I’ve been with
my husband for eight years, mar-
ried for one. Before our mar-
riage, it was just the two of us
doing everything together. He
has a strong distrust of people,
and doesn’t have any friends. We
moved to a bigger city where I
found a better job and made new
friends. I go out with them occa-
sionally, but when I do, he is very
rude and snide to me. When I
ask him why he’s mad if I go out
Violence Hotline (800-799-7233)
because, at some point, you may
need a safe escape plan.
Dear Abby: I have been living
with my boyfriend, a stalwart and
loving partner, for seven years. He
proposed recently and, of course,
I said yes. My brother lives in
a large city, and because I had
attended their church, I asked him
if we could be married there. Now
he and his wife need to talk to us
in person to assure the ministers
that my fiance and I are “evenly
yoked” and willing to make a
public proclamation of our faith.
My fiance is not religious. He
is willing to do whatever it takes
to make me happy and says he’s
change into their fall colors. It is
also when the media refers to the
people who come to look at those
colorful leaves as “leaf peepers.”
I don’t know how the term
came about, but trust me, no one
is walking around peeping like
baby chicks. The correct term is
“leaf peekers.” A teacher I once
had explained it to our class this
way: “This is the time of year
when the tourists arrive to take a
peek at our leaves when the colors
are at their peak.” Just wanted
to share, Abby. — Jay In Ben-
nington, Vt,
Dear Jay: Live and learn.
Thank you for explaining it to this
dumb cluck.
willing to “take the hit” for me,
but I can’t stand the idea of seeing
him uncomfortable on a day that
should be a happy one. How can I
back out of this situation without
alienating my brother, who is the
only immediate family I have
left? — Cringing In Colorado
Dear Cringing: Thank your
brother and his wife WARMLY
for their willingness to help you
and your fiance, but explain that
the two of you feel a smaller wed-
ding would be more appropriate,
so you have decided to elope.
Many couples do this, and it
shouldn’t result in a family feud.
Dear Abby: This is the time
of year when the leaves begin to
Lucy in the sky: Spacecraft will visit record 8 asteroids
Lucy intends to pass within
600 miles (965 kilometers) of
each targeted asteroid.
“Every one of those flybys
needs to be near-perfection,”
Zurbuchen said.
The seven Trojans range in
size from a 40-mile (64-kilo-
meter) asteroid and its half-mile
(1-kilometer) moonlet to a hefty
specimen exceeding 62 miles
(100 kilometers). That’s the
beauty of studying these rocks
named after heroes of Greek
mythology’s Trojan War and,
more recently, modern Olympic
athletes. Any differences among
them will have occurred during
their formation, Levison said,
offering clues about their origins.
Unlike so many NASA mis-
sions, including the upcoming
Dart, short for Double Asteroid
Redirection Test, Lucy is not an
acronym.
The spacecraft is named
after the fossilized remains of
an early human ancestor dis-
covered in Ethiopia in 1974; the
3.2 million-year-old female got
her name from the 1967 Beatles
song “Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds.”
“The Lucy fossil really trans-
formed our understanding of
human evolution, and that’s what
we want to do is transform our
understanding of solar system
evolution by looking at all these
different objects,” said South-
west Research Institute’s Cathy
Olkin, the deputy principal sci-
entist who proposed the space-
craft’s name.
One of its science instruments
actually has a disc of lab-grown
diamond totaling 6.7 carats.
And there’s another con-
nection to the Fab Four. — a
plaque attached to the spacecraft
includes lines from songs they
wrote, along with quotes from
other luminaries. From a John
Lennon single: We all shine on
. . . like the moon and the stars
and the sun.
By MARCIA DUNN
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
Attention asteroid aficionados:
NASA is set to launch a series of
spacecraft to visit and even bash
some of the solar system’s most
enticing space rocks.
The robotic trailblazer named
Lucy is up first, blasting off this
weekend on a 12-year cruise to
swarms of asteroids out near
Jupiter — unexplored time cap-
sules from the dawn of the solar
system. And yes, there will be
diamonds in the sky with Lucy,
on one of its science instruments,
as well as lyrics from other
Beatles’ songs.
NASA is targeting the pre-
dawn hours of Saturday, Oct. 16,
for liftoff.
Barely a month later, an
impactor spacecraft named Dart
will give chase to a double-as-
teroid closer to home. The mis-
sion will end with Dart ramming
the main asteroid’s moonlet to
change its orbit, a test that could
one day save Earth from an
incoming rock.
Next summer, a spacecraft
will launch to a rare metal world
— a nickel and iron asteroid that
might be the exposed core of a
once-upon-a-time planet. A pair
of smaller companion craft — the
size of suitcases — will peel away
to another set of double asteroids.
And in 2023, a space cap-
sule will parachute into the Utah
desert with NASA’s first sam-
ples of an asteroid, collected
last year by the excavating
robot Osiris-Rex. The samples
are from Bennu, a rubble and
boulder-strewn rock that could
endanger Earth a couple centuries
from now.
“Each one of those asteroids
we’re visiting tells our story ...
the story of us, the story of the
solar system,” said NASA’s chief
of science missions, Thomas
Zurbuchen.
SwRI via The Associated Press
This image provided by the Southwest Research Institute depicts the Lucy spacecraft approaching an asteroid. It will be first
space mission to explore a diverse population of small bodies known as the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
Teaming up
There’s nothing better for
understanding how our solar
system formed 4.6 billion years
ago, said Lucy’s principal scien-
tist, Hal Levison of Southwest
Research Institute in Boulder,
Colorado. “They’re the fossils of
planet formation.”
China and Russia are teaming
up for an asteroid mission later
this decade. The United Arab
Emirates is also planning an
asteroid stop in the coming
years.
Advances in tech and design
are behind this flurry of asteroid
missions, as well as the growing
interest in asteroids and the
danger they pose to Earth. All
it takes is looking at the moon
and the impact craters created
by asteroids and meteorites to
realize the threat, Zurbuchen
said.
The asteroid-smacking Dart
spacecraft — set to launch Nov.
24 — promises to be a dramatic
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throughout the outer solar
system and are now at one loca-
tion where we can go and study
them,” Levison said.
exercise in planetary defense.
If all goes well, the high-speed
smashup will occur next fall just
7 million miles (11 million kilo-
meters) away, within full view of
ground telescopes.
The much longer $981 million
Lucy mission — the first to Jupi-
ter’s so-called Trojan entourage
— is targeting an unprecedented
eight asteroids.
Lucy aims to sweep past
seven of the countless Trojan
asteroids that precede and trail
Jupiter in the giant gas plan-
et’s path around the sun. Thou-
sands of these dark reddish or
gray rocks have been detected,
with many thousands more
likely lurking in the two clusters.
Trapped in place by the gravita-
tional forces of Jupiter and the
sun, the Trojans are believed
to be the cosmic leftovers from
when the outer planets were
forming.
“That’s what makes the Tro-
jans special. If these ideas of
ours are right, they formed
Dress rehersal
Before encountering the
Trojans, Lucy will zip past a
smaller, more ordinary object in
the main asteroid belt between
Mars and Jupiter. Scientists con-
sider this 2025 flyby a dress
rehearsal.
Three flybys of Earth will be
needed as gravity slingshots in
order for Lucy to reach both of
Jupiter’s Trojan swarms by the
time the mission is set to end in
2033.
The spacecraft will be so far
from the sun — as much as 530
million miles distant — that
massive solar panels are needed
to provide enough power. Each
of Lucy’s twin circular wings
stretches 24 feet across, dwarfing
the spacecraft tucked in the
middle like the body of a moth.
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
50/54
Kennewick
50/53
St. Helens
47/55
49/54
TIllamook
47/60
45/65
52/56
47/53
Condon
SUN
MON
TUE
WED
Clear
Becoming
cloudy
A shower or
two; cooler
Mostly sunny
and milder
Breezy in the
morning
55 32
59 37
60 37
Eugene
0
5
7
48/56
51 33
62 41
61 43
0
10
7
Comfort Index™
La Grande
9
47 67 38
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
9
9
9
46 68 37
Comfort Index™ 10
59 42
62 44
0
10
10
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Thursday
Low Thursday
High: 101°
Low: 8°
Wettest: 7.10”
54°
23°
54°
35°
54°
34°
0.00
0.04
0.24
3.62
7.10
Trace
0.07
0.52
7.45
12.52
0.07
0.17
0.70
16.58
17.57
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Thursday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY
25%
S at 7 to 14 mph
7.6
0.14
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
N.A.
9% of capacity
10% of capacity
21% of capacity
2% of capacity
0% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Thursday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
Burnt River near Unity
Umatilla River near Gibbon
Minam River at Minam
Powder River near Richland
Zapata, Texas
Bodie State Park, Calif.
Gonzales, Texas
OREGON
High: 67°
Low: 12°
Wettest: 0.42”
Roseburg
Lakeview
Tillamook
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Florence
An early blizzard raged across South
Dakota and southern Minnesota on Oct.
16, 1880. Drifts blocked railroads. The
storm also caused boat-sinking gales on
the Great Lakes.
SUN & MOON
SAT.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
7:10 a.m.
6:05 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
2:39 a.m.
SUN.
7:11 a.m.
6:03 p.m.
5:21 p.m.
3:50 a.m.
MOON PHASES
576 cfs
0 cfs
17 cfs
46 cfs
56 cfs
3 cfs
Full
Oct 20
Last
Oct 28
New
Nov 4
Beaver Marsh
Powers
46/55
First
Nov 11
46/55
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
42/66
Paisley
36/63
36/58
Frenchglen
43/67
44/59
Klamath Falls
35/59
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Hi/Lo/W
54/44/r
61/41/sh
71/47/s
54/43/r
68/38/pc
56/45/r
56/40/r
66/42/s
68/37/pc
56/45/r
71/49/pc
60/46/sh
69/43/c
68/42/pc
65/38/pc
72/45/pc
59/31/c
63/28/c
Hi/Lo/W
59/44/pc
55/32/pc
56/40/c
57/45/pc
55/26/pc
60/39/c
59/35/pc
57/36/sh
52/31/r
60/38/pc
63/37/s
59/40/pc
54/37/r
53/38/r
50/36/r
67/39/s
50/24/pc
47/22/pc
41/70
Lakeview
27/63
McDermitt
35/65
RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
MON.
Grand View
Arock
36/67
38/66
Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs.
SUN.
Diamond
40/67
Fields
Medford
Brookings
Boise
45/71
43/60
47/54
32/71
34/63
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Juntura
27/68
40/58
33/58
Roseburg
Ontario
40/72
Burns
Brothers
44/58
Coos Bay
Huntington
38/63
46/61
Oakridge
34/66
42/67
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
THURSDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
45/68
41/60
Council
34/66
John Day
40/65
Sisters
48/56
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
37/67
Baker City
Redmond
50/54
51/55
Halfway
Granite
40/60
43/56
50/55
48/55
52 33
10
Corvallis
43/73
46/56
Newport
Enterprise
46/68
47/67
Monument
43/62
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
34 66 36
Elgin
43/68
La Grande
44/62
Maupin
Baker City
48/68
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
44/71
Hood River
44/68
51/57
Lewiston
Walla Walla
42/72
Vancouver
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City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
SUN.
MON.
Hi/Lo/W
71/46/c
53/44/r
67/38/pc
59/43/r
54/45/r
55/44/r
72/45/s
68/45/pc
68/42/c
56/48/r
55/45/r
65/39/sh
55/45/r
55/46/r
65/40/pc
65/46/sh
68/34/pc
68/44/pc
Hi/Lo/W
60/39/pc
58/37/c
51/31/pc
59/39/pc
55/43/pc
58/37/c
61/37/sh
65/40/s
58/37/pc
59/44/pc
60/39/c
57/29/s
60/38/c
60/40/pc
59/37/pc
62/40/pc
49/31/sh
60/40/r
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Turning out cloudy
Clouding up
43
26
61
34
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Becoming cloudy
Increasing clouds
55
35
67
44
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Turning out cloudy
Becoming cloudy
49
32
65
32
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Partly sunny; mild
Mostly cloudy
65
38
69
40
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Clouding up
Becoming cloudy
66
36
67
38